Moving Home dir to another partition

[René Berber]

Mool wrote:

> 1) Cygwin Installed on C:\Cygwin (C: partition win winXP SP2)
> 2) First run created /home/$USER in C:\Cygwin
> 
> how to MOVE my home dir in another partition D:, so I'll use
> D:\cygwin\home\$USER?

cp -rp /cygdrive/c/Cygwin/home/$USER /cygdrive/d/Cygwin/home

Edit /etc/passwd changing $USER's line with the new home (i.e. from /home/$USER
to /cygdrive/d/Cygwin/home/$USER)

_test it_, if it works then you can delete the old home directory.

All this is assuming you haven't changed the cygdrive prefix.  And if you do
change it in the future the new $HOME will not work, you'll have to edit passwd
again.
-- 
René Berber


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